DIVERS RELOCATE WRECK 73 FATHOMS DOWN
NBW YORK, April 15. Divers yesterday agaiii located off Key West (Florida) the sunken Spahibpf galleOn; Banta- .Epsa.-vWhieft, ascording to iegeiid, sailed frOm Mexico in 1520 with 30,000,000 dollars wotth of stolen Aztec gold. Divers first found the wreck iii i940, but the -tffif caiiSed a discontinuation of salvage operations. The chief diver, Mr. Irwin Williamsoii, Who re-locatOd the WxOck in 143 fOet of Water, said he and other divers eearched the hiill for 43 minutes, but beeause they feared the tifiihers might coliapse, did not reach the sectiOft where the treasure was likely to be i'OUiid, lie added that the search WOuid be contifiUed when the seas titiietgfied, The Iegeiid says that Mohtezuma, the Aztecs, king, beeause of the betrayai of hig friefidship by the Spaniard Coftez, placed a terribie curse on the treaStire.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1946, Page 5
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